The Department of National Defence announced today the signing of a long-term partnership with the U.S. Department of Defense for the continued sharing of space-related services and information. This arrangement will help maintain a safer operating environment for satellites, by sharing information on natural (space weather) and man-made hazards (orbital debris, de-orbiting satellites or spacecraft collisions) in orbit.
The Canadian Armed Forces rely on space for a wide-range of functions such as command and control, weather information, navigation, communications, mapping, and search and rescue. Space Situational Awareness provides the knowledge to ensure the availability of space-enabled capabilities that have become essential to the conduct of CAF operations.
The sharing of information between like-minded nations, such as Canada and the U.S., has been a key enabler to increasing our understanding of, and access to, advanced orbital information. National Defence has used this relationship to provide support to the Government of Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, and Canadian commercial satellite owner/operators.
- The Honourable Rob Nicholson, P.C., Q.C., M.P. for Niagara Falls and Minister of National
Defence
- Lieutenant-General Guy Thibault, Vice-Chief of the Defence Staff
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